There are two types of people in the church: those who look forward to and enjoy retreats, and those who do not. Truthfully, I'm a member of the latter group, so I wasn't exactly excited about our Session retreat this weekend. But it went far better than I'd expected.
It helped that we had a beautiful venue in Discovery Bay as our setting. And it super-helped that we were blessed beyond measure by the hospitality of Pam and Mike. (These two provided an excellent --and humbling-- example of serving like Jesus wants us to serve.)
But beyond those (not small) things, we had a lot of great discussion, and despite our very different personalities, we found ourselves in complete agreement on a handful of important ideas and concepts that we
needed to agree on in order to move forward. It was nothing short of a God-thing.
So today I'm thankful for the gift of exceeded expectations and the blessing of working with these wonderful people.
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